Y12 Sport students visit Barcelona The Y12 Sport students recently went on a sport and culture trip to Barcelona. Travelling by plane, we landed midday and were excited to venture over to the Olympic area. Taking a cable car up to the Olympic swimming pool students explored the Olympic facilities and visited the Olympic […]

Box Clever Theatre present Macbeth to Y10 Last week, the English department were delighted to once again welcome Box Clever Theatre, who performed their adaptation of Macbeth and led a workshop for students in Y10. This was a wonderful opportunity to see the play live, and enhance students’ understanding of the text ahead of their […]

Silver Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Success Congratulations to the 34 Year 11 students who passed their Silver Assessed Expedition in the White Peaks. It was a challenging start to the 3-day expedition with the combination of demanding routes plus very cold and wet weather.  Participants were therefore relieved that the weekend brought sunny spells and predominantly […]

Vandyke achieves Gold Sports Mark Award We are delighted to announce that we have achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2023/24 academic year. The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition […]

Vandyke Appoints New Headteacher As all Vandyke staff, students and parents/carers will know, our headteacher, Tim Carroll, will be retiring in the Summer after 21 years. We will be sad to see Tim leave and the governing body have been fully engaged in the recruitment of his successor. Governors interviewed five short-listed candidates over two […]

Bronze Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Success Congratulations to the 80 Bronze Duke of Edinburgh’s Award participants from Year 10 who undertook and passed their Qualifying Expedition at the end of the Spring Term. Various routes from Leighton Buzzard were walked to the campsite at Town Farm near Ivinghoe on day one. A circuit route was […]

  STEM visit: Girls On Track Write-up by Elsa Williams Last term a group of 10 Vandyke girls, mostly from our STEM club, went to Cosworth Engineering in Northampton to join five other schools in an event organised by FIA Girls on Track to encourage more young women into STEM/ motorsports careers. When we arrived, […]

Vandyke students create skatepark graffiti Some opportunities are simply too good to turn down. Especially when it involved asking young people to help with the design of the local area. When I was contacted by a council representative with the idea of inviting some of our students down to the skatepark to graffiti the newly […]

Sixth Form Apprenticeships & Employment event With a growing number of students aspiring to secure degree apprenticeships with top employers, the Sixth Form hosted an event where students could hear from local employers about their opportunities, and meet our ever-growing alumni of past and present apprentices. The event took place during National Apprenticeships Week, and […]

Y11 students visit Poetry Live! event 70 Y11 students had a wonderful day out at the Poetry Live! event at the Emmanuel Centre in London last month. Students had the opportunity to hear from poets Carol Anne Duffy, Simon Armitage and John Agard, among others, and they enjoyed a special feature from playwright Owen Sheers, […]